Everything posted by SydneyCarton
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Stupid tik tokker shuts down coffee shop
Did you even watch the video you posted? The lady said everyone was naked, they were serving alcohol without a license, and they were in proximity of a local school. I'm assuming this is some kind of sarcasm that I'm missing.
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Gun to your head: name your favorite book ever
I could be mistaking them for some other folks, but I thought I read some fundamental religious takes that made me pause awhile back. I know they've been accused of racist tropes in their books, but I mostly dismiss that stuff. But the Eddings, I believe they were straight up child abusers who kept their kid in a cage and lost custody of both of them.
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Trying food from every country in the world...without leaving NYC !
Instagram for those who don't have TikTok:
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Dungeon Crawler Carl
I just don't have much bandwidth for listening to books. Currently the act of reading is as important to me was what I'm reading, for brain and mental health, etc. I've still got like 40 episodes of Last Podcast On The Left I'm cycling through (been like a 5 year commitment there) that I listen to when I'm in my short commutes every day, so that's out. Maybe when I'm done with that. Man. Dresden files are very meh so far. The stories are fine, but the guy is a poor writer. The problem is I read book one. I now....have to fucking finish like all 18. Those are the rules. But I am NOT excited about it. So the Houston public library has a couple copies of Dungeon Crawler Carl. One of them has a 27 week wait list. The other has almost no waitlist. People are...not always smart.
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Transfer OG Laurence Seymore
This bump can get fucked
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Gun to your head: name your favorite book ever
Another vote for Confederacy of Dunces, but I'd also be remiss if I didn't give props to A Tale of Two Cities...obviously. Funny, this was also the book that started me on reading larger books. I remember being in 5th or 6th grade in a Walden Books in the mall, and picking this out because it looked cool. Before that all I was plowing through new Hardy Boys mysteries. But as a result, I blew threw these and it started me down a path of reading pretty much all their stuff (didn't know they were terrible people), then moved onto the David Eddings stuff (also, terrible horrible person yikes), and sci-fi and fantasy in general. Small world.
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Whatcha reading?
I've finally started reading again, after years, and I've plowed through a ton of pulp fiction by Nelson DeMille, some Stephen King, some Lee Child type stuff to get back in the game. I've been compiling a huge list of books to read. Then I saw the other day that Noah Hawley, the guy behind the F/X series Fargo and the new Alien series, and Legion (all shows that are fucking GREAT) apparently also is a fucking author (and apparently he can sing). So I grabbed and have ALMOST finished this: And I'll be goddamn if this asshole isn't also just a tremendous fucking writer. Of course, I knew he was a great storyteller, and great with dialog from his TV shows. But the asshole writes beautiful fucking prose as well. This man needs to leave some talent for the rest of us. By rights, he should be 5'1" and 250 lbs. Nope, guy probably doesn't have a problem getting pussy. Allegedly he's 5'10" as well. Fucking guy. It's a good, breezy read, I'd recommend it for anyone.
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Dungeon Crawler Carl
Sigh. I'll add this dude's books to my currently giant list of books to read. Just because of you two knuckleheads. But I'm not going to listen to it. Probably should have started this instead of Dresden Files. Woof.
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Infinite jest
I read it years back. I think, if I ever do read it again, I'm going to read it backwards in real time and skip every chapter about the french canadian meeting with the agent.
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NIL Recruiting News Megathread
Homeboy doesn't get that deal playing at Auburn.
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Trump’s America
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-clean-coal-white-house-meeting-b2918708.html
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
There's some wikipedia entries that could very easily explain this for you: Actions Following a presidential campaign that centered immigration policy, Donald Trump enacted in his first presidency (2017–2021) a hardline immigration policy intended to reduce immigration. Shortly after taking office, he signed an executive order to increase ICE's staffing by 10,000 people, and to vastly expand ICE's immigration enforcement powers.[38] While ICE largely prioritized people charged with serious crimes during the Obama administration, Trump's first administration directed the agency to target anybody it believed had entered the United States illegally.[22] Subsequently, the number of encounters and arrests performed by ICE increased substantially, including the encounters and arrests of U.S. citizens.[39] ICE began engaging in high-profile raids at places of employment, places of worship, and places of education.[22] During this time, some Democratic lawmakers and progressive figures called for the abolition of ICE, and an overhaul of the United States immigration system.[22][38] In 2018, a total of 19 HSI special agents in charge or SACs (who are the senior most officials in each investigative division) sent a letter to DHS secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and asked to be formally separated from ICE.[38][40] These 19 SACs explained that HSI's investigative mission was repeatedly being hamstrung by ICE's civil immigration enforcement mission,[38][40] saying that many jurisdictions limited their co-operation with HSI because of its linkage to the politically charged activity of ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), which is also housed under ICE.[22][40] These senior leaders requested HSI be restructured as a stand-alone agency analogous to the Secret Service.[40] It was also stated "No U.S. Department of Justice law enforcement agency is paired with another disparate entity, i.e., the FBI is not paired with the Bureau of Prisons or DEA."[40] This letter was ultimately ignored by the administration.[40] ---------------------- That's the difference from Trump's FIRST term. There are entire pages about the differences for his entire second term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths,_detentions_and_deportations_of_American_citizens_in_the_second_Trump_administration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_in_the_second_Trump_administration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICE_recruitment_during_the_second_Trump_administration I'd just paste the summary of issues with ICE in Trump's second presidency, but it's literally too big to post here.
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ICE activity/raids
Good. Go open eyes in a red state.
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Pam Bondi is a dumbass
1.) Yes they will. It will be viewed as an attack on Trump, most R's will not do it. 2.) Yes, most of the senate will vote against conviction. This is wish casting. Edited to add: If there was any kind of willingness or feeling or consideration of compliance the way you're suggesting, she would have been held in contempt yesterday.
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
TACO https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/homan-trump-ice-immigration-minnesota-minneapolis.html
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Pam Bondi is a dumbass
Who's going to charge her, and with what? The majority party would have to charge her. IDon'tBelieveYou.gif. Link as proof. But my guess is that child pedo behavior makes even aggie want to have direct questions answered. Edit: Yeah no. https://texags.com/forums/16/topics/3595274
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Epstein files: "There's a bunch of sick fucks"
Massie is a completely different guy than he was 2 years ago. I know he's always been an out there kook libertarian gun type...but unlike most of the republican party, this guy clearly was some kind of true believer, and the dark shit he's seen with the Epstein files has clearly shook some semblance of sense into him.
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Trump’s America
I mean, how's that universal healthcare for veterans after they stopped serving? Because per my BIL, it's pretty not great.
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The GQP: Trumpist Death Cult
Yeah, I can't sit through these for 20 minutes, much less almost two hours.
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Trump’s America
Lol. No it's not. There's more than enough money to do both. Some insurance companies would just have to go bye bye.
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Do We Have a Christ Followers Thread?
They have. That's why we are where we are, currently.
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The Trump Economy
The music from Interstellar was funny. I mean, some of the biggest donors to his campaign are anti-union, so of course the whole government is anti-union.
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The GQP: Trumpist Death Cult
The look in this guy's eyes trying to talk to her made my day. It's a low bar these days, but I'll take it.
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Trump’s America
This murder happened in Prosper, TX? Gotta assume daddy will be acquitted, and that's even if the case isn't dismissed on account of the fact that the far right things murdering your own children is perfectly within the right of their father.
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Epstein files: "There's a bunch of sick fucks"
Maybe. But if the name is going to be mentioned regardless, I'd assume the reflex is to sue the fuck out of Massie and make it difficult for him as well.